I most certainly give a fuck. Fedup of the underpowered shit over the past 6 years. It's only so long you can hide behind the "Game are for fun" rubbish.

Another underpowered system only give devs reason to take their shortcuts and we simply won't get any further with 3rd party support. We already see it happening.

Well, we should care. It could be paramount to the 3rd party relations this machine will get. Do we want another Nintendo with only the capability to recieve rehashed ports of last gen games?
Building a machine with the same hardware discrepancy as the Wii - PS360 would be foolish, they could still construct a console cost efficiently that could and would recieve a lot of 3rd party efforts due to ease of development without the need for peculiar tailoring and "moving backwards" in terms of tech.

Nintendo need to realize that they can't simply sit back and do everything differently and hope and expect to dictate what the market can provide for them, they need to conform a little themselves and stop complaining about problems they built themselves with the Wii.

Constructing another Wii in terms of hardware capacity would be beyond folly if they want any kind of support and it appears that they have realized this and avoided it. As long as the WiiU is capable of the same structure shaders, full HD, decent framerates and mundane tasks such as AA and field depths and real-time shadows, whether it be weaker versions than Nextbox and PS4, they'll be fine. And in this regard, they will be fine, that much is revealed by every source, both positive and negative.

I don't think that that report is accurate. EPIC was praising the system and what it could do, and they are a graphics first house (I mean, when your main product is Unreal Engine, come on). My personal belief is that Wii U will have abilities around 2x of the current gen systems. Keep in mind that the studio that this came out of may have old Dev Hardware, or just not know how to get the best graphics out of the machine.

The technology in 360 and PS3 is insanely old at this point. GPU technology has come a LONG way in the last 6 years. Of course, this being a console, it won't have the cutting edge, because the GPU itself would cost more than the system, but you can get VERY GOOD graphical performance from a sub-$100 GPU these days, and that is a price that a single consumer would pay. Nintendo, with its massive coffers and fan base can definitely get a much better per chip price than any of us could.

Here is to hoping that these rumors are just much thrown by Sony/MS, or a bad dev house not knowing what they are doing with hardware.

I know.

I care, but I don't need it to be much more powerful than a PS3, just enough so the games run at a better framerate and better AA. From time to time in 1080p would also be good but not necessary.

The point is that the 3rd party games have to look better so people will be interested in buying the Wii U version otherwise they will just keep using their PS3 and Xbox360 consoles and never buy a Wii U in the first place.

It certainly matters to me. I'm fine with Wii U not being the strongest console of next gen, but I at least want it to be considered as a next gen console. To everyone saying graphics don't matter, and as long as they can play their first party games in HD they will be happy. Come on. I like Nintendos first party games too, but better hardware means more capability for first party games. Not to mention how third party devs will support Wii U more if it is more capable.

Yes, it's the games that matter. But honestly i'm tired of Nintendo having the weakest hardware.

The Wii crashed and burned because Nintendo left it out to die. It is not because the games look bad, it's because there's practically no game to look forward to on Wii right now.

I just want to go back to being a single console owner, aka I want it to be able to handle multiplats

I choose that I care. I'm not a graphic whore but Wii U should be "Next" Generation, not "as" or "slightly" powerful than PS3. I just hope the gap between PS4 and WiiU won't be as much as Wii vs PS3 comparison